The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 16

‘And now we will go to the King’s palace,’ said Dapplegrim—that was the horse’s name, ‘but bear in mind that you must ask the King for a good stable and excellent fodder for me.’

Who acts: we, ‘, that, you · What happens: go, say, be, ask · To what, where: palace, name, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, ‘, that, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	‘	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 go	advmod
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 ‘	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 palace	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 King	case
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ‘	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 ‘	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 name	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 name	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 name	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 name	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 horse	case
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bear	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 bear	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 bear	cc
26	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 name	appos
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 mind	case
28	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bear	nmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 ask	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 ask	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 ask	aux
32	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 King	det
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ask	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 stable	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 stable	det
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stable	amod
38	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ask	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fodder	cc
40	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fodder	amod
41	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stable	conj
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 me	case
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 ask	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	we			the King's palace	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	‘						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	past	that	the horse's name					tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	must	you		the King			for a good stable and excellent fodder; for me	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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